How do I change what my staff are allowed to do?
Every team member in Woof has one of four roles (Admin, Front Desk, Groomer / Trainer, Clock In / Out) set under Settings › User Accounts, and eight permissions can be granted or removed per person on top of their role. A hidden page is also a closed one.
Everyone on your team is one record under Settings › User Accounts with exactly one role. The role sets a preset of permissions; the Permissions section of their record lets you flip a short list of them for that one person.
The four roles
| Admin | Front Desk | Groomer / Trainer | Clock In / Out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who | Owner, manager | Reception | Service staff | Kiosk-only staff |
| Today | Yes | Yes | Yes | No web login |
| Calendar | Yes | Yes | Own column only, as "My Schedule" | |
| Online booking, Booking Flow, Recurring, Waitlist | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Clients and pets | Yes | Yes | Pet notes through their bookings | |
| Money (invoices, payments, products) | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Messages | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Grow (automations, campaigns, reviews) | Yes | No | No | |
| Insights (reports) | Yes | No, unless granted | No | |
| Settings and Team | Yes | No | No | |
| Time clock | PIN kiosk | Own clock | Own clock | PIN only |
There is no separate manager role; managers are Admins.
Permissions you can change per person
Open the person and find Permissions. Items tagged Default come with the role; an Exception is something you granted this person beyond it, and an unticked default is something you took away. Eight can be changed:
- See prices and Change prices (the price matrix and service prices)
- Export clients
- Refund payments
- View reports
- Manage marketing (automations and campaigns)
- View the team
- Send messages
Everything else is fixed by the role. Admins hold every permission and show no toggles.
Hidden means closed
A page a role cannot see is also a page its data will not load on, and the same is true of the API behind the app. So a groomer who types the address of the Clients page gets a role notice, not the client list. Conversely, granting View reports to a front-desk person both shows the Insights item and lets the reports load.
Seeing it for yourself
Preview as on a person's record shows you Woof exactly as they see it, with a banner and a way back. Use it after changing a permission rather than guessing.
The two time-clock paths
Admins use the PIN kiosk: one shared device, and the four-digit PIN says who is punching. Everyone else clocks themselves in and out from their own login, no PIN needed. A Clock In / Out account has a PIN and nothing else.
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